Glossary

Mental fitness

Keeping psychological capacities in shape — clarity, emotional regulation, perspective, decision-making — through regular practice, on the model of physical fitness.

The term is deliberately non-medical: it describes preventive personal-development work, not medical care. It is not about diagnosing or treating any disorder.

Session

One continuous conversation with SAM, structured in four stages — welcome, exploration, insight, action — and closed by a closing ritual.

The closing is not a politeness formula: it carries a synthesis, one concrete commitment doable in under two minutes, and a bridge to the next session. It is checked before the reply is sent.

MFS (Mental Fitness Score)

A composite score from 0 to 100 summarising five equally weighted components: emotional awareness, consistency of engagement, self-assessment, progress, and adaptability.

Self-assessment comes from your own check-ins and is never blended with other sources — it is your direct voice in the score.

The MFS stays locked until you have completed five sessions: a score computed on two conversations would say nothing reliable.

Crisis protocol

The set of rules governing SAM’s behaviour when a distress signal appears: screening of every message, a graduated response, referral to real resources, and notification of a human on the team.

The response is graduated rather than binary: passive ideation that has been voiced is not treated as an immediate emergency, and explicit intent together with a means to act triggers immediate referral to help.

Invariant: screening depends on no cache and no session state, and keeps working under degraded infrastructure.